Mirza Masroor Ahmad

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (15 September 1950-) was the Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community from 22 April 2003, succeeding Mirza Tahir Ahmad.

Biography
Mirza Masroor Ahmad was born on 15 September 1950 in Rabwah, Punjab, Pakistan to a family of Ahmadis. He graduated from the University of Agriculture in Faisalabad, but he went on to be an Ahmadiyya preacher, building a secondary school in Salaga, Ghana during his long stay in the country. On 17 March 1985, he was made responsible for the finances of the community, and on 10 December 1997 he became local emir of the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. On 22 April 2003, he was chosen to succeed Mirza Tahir Ahmad as caliph on his death on 22 April 2003, and he was a positive role model for Muslims, giving speeches advocating loyalty and love to one's nation, holding a world peace lunch, and challenging Islamist extremism. He sent letters to the leaders of both Israel and Iran (the latter twice) to ask them to avoid a third world war, and he warned President Barack Obama of the United States and Prime Ministers Stephen Harper of Canada and David Cameron of the United Kingdom of the trouble with nuclear weapons.